by Rachel Rizzuto | Jul 6, 2020 | Studio Owners
Small businesses across the U.S. are keeping careful tabs on their states’ reopening schedules and making changes to their business models accordingly. As pandemic-related guidelines and timelines evolve, it’s important that you have a multilayered plan...
by Hannah Maria Hayes | Jul 1, 2020 | Studio Owners, teacher stories
Talk about being close: Dana and Hugo Adames have been together 18 years and have two kids who love to dance—and the couple owns The Talent Factory Performing Arts Centre, with two locations, 550 students and a third site in the works. Dana, artistic director, and...
by Rachel Rizzuto | Jun 26, 2020 | Studio Owners
On Wednesday, March 11—two weeks ahead of a statewide stay-at-home mandate—Colorado Conservatory of Dance executive director Richard Cowden and artistic director Julia Wilkinson Manley made the difficult decision to take all of CCD’s classes online. As...
by Rachel Rizzuto | Jun 19, 2020 | Studio Owners
For Shanna Kirkpatrick, owner of Chara Christian Dance Academy, the key to retaining 96.5 percent of her 1,000-student enrollment through COVID-19 has been communication: regular e-mail updates, mass studio text messages, personal phone calls and—perhaps most...
by Avichai Scher | Jun 17, 2020 | Studio Owners, teacher stories
Silicon Valley Ballet announced in February 2016 that the company would close and file for bankruptcy. The closure included the school—and $250,000 in tuition money for the current school year and summer program was lost in the bankruptcy.But the collapse could not...
by Rachel Rizzuto | Jun 15, 2020 | Studio Owners
Planning a recital pre-COVID-19 was enough to make even the most well-organized dance studio owner feel stressed. Add a global pandemic into the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for a nervous breakdown—not to mention a serious revenue shortfall. Good thing studio...
by Rachel Rizzuto | Jun 11, 2020 | Studio Owners
Rachel Arnold is a studio owner who knows how to transform lemons into lemonade. Rather than viewing stay-at-home orders as something to just power through at her Greenville, TX–based school, Dance Prodigy Studio, she’s turned online education into a chance to...
by Nancy Wozny | Jun 3, 2020 | Studio Owners
When Houston’s beloved METdance lost its lease in 2019, artistic director Marlana Doyle struck out on her own to open the Institute of Contemporary Dance Houston. With a new building, school and performing company, Doyle had carefully set the stage for an April...
by Rachel Rizzuto | May 1, 2020 | Studio Owners
When Genevieve Weeks opened her children’s dance studio, Tutu School, in San Francisco in 2008, she quickly figured out that she’d hit on something good. “By 2009, I’d opened a second location, and that one also did quite well,” says...
by Hannah Maria Hayes | Apr 10, 2020 | Studio Owners
Plan Ahead Marketing Idea: Boost Boys’ Class EnrollmentHow many little (or big) brothers are going to fall in love with dance once they decide to join in or watch an older sibling take virtual class? Strategize now how you’re going to get those cuties into...